MOLVI A. K. FAZAL-E-HAQ

Maulvi Abul Kasim Fazlul Haq was born in a village in the Barisal district of the present Bangladesh. He was the first Muslim graduate of Bengal. He joined the Congress in 1912 and was elected its secretary general but resigned because of the differences on the minorities issues and joined the Muslim League and was elected the General Secretary of the Bengal Muslim League . In 1913 he became a member of the Bengal Assembly.

In 1935 he became the Mayor of Calcutta. From 1935 to 1937 he was a member of the Indian assembly. In 1937 he left the Muslim LEague to form his own Krishak Praja PArty. HE became the Chief Minister of BEngal in April 1937 which he remained till 1943.

When the Quaid-e-Azam reorganized the Muslim League, Fazlul HAq rejoined the fold and presented the Pakistan Resolution in the historic Lahore session of the Muslim League in 1940. After independence he was the advocate general of the former East Pakistan. In 1954, after the electoral victory of the United Front, he became the provincial chief minister. In the beginning of 1956 he became the Governor of the former East Pakistan but was removed some months later. HE died in Dacca after a long illness.